Mussel Farm
Members of the Nelson fishing industry are taking legal action over what they say is a lack of consultation in the approval of up to 1000 of mussel farms in Golden and Tasman bays. Challenger Finfisheries Management Company chief executive Carol Scott said the action was being taken on behalf of the Challenger fisheries […]
African Spiny Lobster
Former Hout Bay Fishing Industries company owner Arnold Bengis, his son David, and US business partner Jeffrey Noll are described in current US Appeal Court papers as “key players in a sprawling, trans-Atlantic criminal scheme to illegally harvest massive quantities of South African rock lobster and Patagonian toothfish - marketed in the US […]
Kung Fu Crab
Maryland Blue Crab
Maryland’s icon, the blue crab, has been fading away in Chesapeake Bay. Last year Maryland saw the lowest harvest (22 million pounds) since 1945. Just four decades ago the bay produced 96 million pounds.The population is down 70% since 1990, when they first did a formal count. There are only about 120 million […]
Lobster Game In Question
The U.S. manufacturer of The Lobster Zone claw game featured in about 300 restaurants nationwide is fighting back after PETA said the game is cruel to animals. PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) is urging restaurants to get rid of the machines, which are similar to plush toy games in […]
Not that kind of Lobster Chef, but it’s cute anyway
A chef in New York has been charged with stealing lobster tails from a restaurant kitchen by stuffing them down his trousers. Fellow workers at Junior’s restaurant in Brooklyn became suspicious and called the police when the food went missing from a walk-in freezer. Police searched […]
Cyclone Survivors
A Myanmar government-affiliated group denied rumors that fish from cyclone-ravaged areas were unfit to eat after supposedly feeding on human and animals corpses, local media reported Monday. Since Cyclone Nargis slammed into Myanmar’s Irrawaddy delta last month, some people in Yangon _ the country’s biggest city _ have been reluctant to eat fish because […]
Big DeDe the Lobster
While Big Dee-Dee the giant lobster is basking in fame, the family of fishermen who caught him has been toiling in anonymity, with good catches tempered by skyrocketing fuel prices and low prices. And while the century-old lobster is on the market for $1,000, the captain of the lobster boat The Wife […]
Empty Lobster Boat Warehouse
For the first time in 24 years of building lobster boats, Wayne Beal doesn’t have any job orders. He has a 42-footer under construction at his boatyard — but he’s building it for himself, so he can give up boat building and go lobster fishing instead. In Maine, where lobster is king, […]
Department of Wildlife Inspects Boat for invasive mussels
A first-weekend tryout of Bruce Shaffer and Dana Mason’s new boat was scuttled Saturday when inspectors working for county parks found possible signs of invasive mussels on the couple’s new ride. The larvae of the zebra and quagga mussels are too small to see with the naked eye, […]